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Lesotho: Unemployment, total (% of labor force)

16.32percent · 2025+0.6% since 2015

Share of the labor force without work. Annual figures for Lesotho from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202516.315
202416.34
202316.348
202216.623
202118.214
202018.385
201916.876
201816.614
201716.379
201616.138
201516.223
201416.066
201315.926
201215.761
201116.115
201016.068
200916.115
200815.851
200715.942
200616.054
200516.031
200416.154
200316.056
200216.079
200116.081
200016.169
199916.167
199815.913
199715.822
199615.709
199515.797
199415.62
199315.568
199215.448
199115.495

Source

Published by World Bank. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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World Bank (2026). Unemployment, total (% of labor force). Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-unemployment (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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